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TIL a 28-year-old South Korean man died after playing Starcraft for nearly 50 hours straight with minimal food or sleep.

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negGr TIL about the SMS Emden, a small German cruiser in the first world war that raided shipping in the Indian Ocean. in late 1914 she sailed over 35k miles around the Ocean, sinking a total of 71k tons of shipping. (more in comments)
9Lnm TIL the expiration dates on water bottles is for the bottle and not for the water. The water doesn’t go bad but the bottle “expires” and starts leaching chemicals into the water.
a5KZ TIL there is a secret club of the most influential and prominent men in the world who gather once a year in California for three weeks, which includes business Leaders, government officials, former US presidents, media executives, and people of power based on invite-only memberships since 1878.
9ZEM TIL New Zealand soldiers carved a gigantic Kiwi into the side of a hill in England right after WWI. It’s still visible today.
6l4Z TIL a professor in France carried out a 15-year study of 330 women’s breasts, measuring and examining their breasts to study the effects of living without the support of a bra. His conclusion is that a bra is useless.